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How is the drive management in OMV? I'm looking for something similar to UnRaid pools so i can add one drive at a time (ZFS makes you add vdevs of the same no. of drives).

I'm not too concerned with parity (ive got automated remote backups for sensitive info that I cant replace) but it would be good to know if I could swap drives out if I need to expand or replace anything too.

EDIT: with ZFS 2.3.0 supporting raid expansion, it might be worth me holding out for a year for that to become more stable, and migrate after. I only have 1 drive for now so it shouldnt be too bad if i made a new pool and moved stuff over to a 2nd drive

Upvote RSS is a self-hosted project I've been working on that generates RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Lemmy, Reddit, and Hacker News. You can subscribe to Lemmy communities, subreddits, and Hacker News while filtering to only the top posts. It will embed Reddit post media (videos, images, galleries), and you can optionally include parsed article content, AI-generated summaries, top comments, and more. Here are some of the features:

• Supports Lemmy communities, subreddits, Hacker News, and more to come
• Configurable filtering to dial in the right number of posts per day in your feed reader
• Embedded post media: videos, galleries, images
• Parsers to extract clean content and add featured images
• AI article summaries
• Estimated reading time, score, and permalinks to the original post
• Top comments
• NSFW filtering/blurring (Reddit only for now)
• Custom Reddit domain
• Light/dark mode for feed previews

Here's the GitHub link if you'd like to give it a spin:

https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss

And the preview website (not all options are available here):

https://www.upvote-rss.com/

Hi all,

Working through some things like a Will (I am fine, just normal life planning), and debating on methods for digital management when I do die.

I run a lot of self-hosted services for family and friends, all on secured servers with ZFS and on/off site backups. Key ingredient is Vaultwarden for password management.

I'd like to put something in place so that encryption keys, some docs, and key passwords are released to a tech savvy friend. Anyone know of existing solutions for this?

Requirements of:

• Not providing keys to a third-party beforehand
• Not forgeable to open
• If possible, no "weekly press a button"

I'm thinking some kind of key pair where my friend has the private key and the public key is provided to a family member, and when activated a timer starts where I could cancel the release.

More info here: https://claudio.uk/posts/audiblez-v4.html

Title question mostly. I've played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I'm wondering if folks are using anything else special. I'd like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant's voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!

Hi c/selfhosted,

I have another project idea. However, before I start I want to make sure there is interest in the community and a similar project does not exist yet.

I was thinking about a "compose" website that contains the compose files and basic information of the projects listed in the awesome-selfhosted list. Users can search for projects, browse by categories, etc. In my opinion when finding a new project you want to try out it, is a bit cumbersome to find the corresponding compose file to get started.

Let me know if there is any interest in such a project. Also I have no idea how I would name the project, so give me your best suggestions :). Thanks!

With a few other volunteers we are monitoring a list of websites for a local project. Every few days we manually go through all those links to check if new events were published on those websites. (We can not automate this task). I installed https://readeck.org/en/ on my server, but it isn't suited for our use case. I am looking for an opensource tool where everyone (without creating an account) can go to

• browse a list of url
• add new entries
• sort them in categories
• easily mark it as "visited on [curent date]"

I know i could just use a shared Ethercalc or any table tool but i would love a dedicated tool where the last clic by someone on a link is automatically monitored and update the last visit date. Also it would be great that when adding a new link, the tool would check if it isn't already in the database. Our goal is to simplify this collaborative task and avoid the time spent checking websites others have already checked a few days ago.

I hope some of you have any ideas

Hello Selfhosted!

So I have an interesting issue. I have a docker host, and that host i have a Caddy container. I have that setup to handle reverse proxying. I have it setup to be local only. I have a pihole and a wireguard server. And can connect to my network successfully.

The part that confuses me is that while on network everything works great. While on VPN I can connect to services by IP:Port. If I use mobile data with VPN, I can't use the site addresses. x.domain.xxx (for privacy sake I'm leaving my domain out of the post.) But when I connect to WiFi, any WiFi, and connect to VPN I can go to the address I have setup for reverse proxying.

I am unsure how to troubleshoot this. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Hi all!

I will soon acquire a pretty beefy unit compared to my current setup (3 node server with each 16C, 512G RAM and 32T Storage).

Currently I run TrueNAS and Proxmox on bare metal and most of my storage is made available to apps via SSHFS or NFS.

I recently started looking for "modern" distributed filesystems and found some interesting S3-like/compatible projects.

To name a few:

• MinIO
• SeaweedFS
• Garage
• GlusterFS

I like the idea of abstracting the filesystem to allow me to move data around, play with redundancy and balancing, etc.

My most important services are:

• Plex (Media management/sharing)
• Stash (Like Plex 🙃)
• Nextcloud
• Caddy with Adguard Home and Unbound DNS
• Most of the Arr suite
• Git, Wiki, File/Link sharing services

As you can see, a lot of download/streaming/torrenting of files accross services. Smaller services are on a Docker VM on Proxmox.

Currently the setup is messy due to the organic evolution of my setup, but since I will upgrade on brand new metal, I was looking for suggestions on the pillars.

So far, I am considering installing a Proxmox cluster with the 3 nodes and host VMs for the heavy stuff and a Docker VM.

How do you see the file storage portion? Should I try a full/partial plunge info S3-compatible object storage? What architecture/tech would be interesting to experiment with?

Or should I stick with tried-and-true, boring solutions like NFS Shares?

Thank you for your suggestions!

Got a couple rpi 3Bs I'd like to use headless.

Downloaded 32bit pi os lite, flashed it to an sd card, powered on and did the initial setup (select keyboard layout, set first user+pass).

As soon as I'm dropped into a shell, I run 'sudo apt update' then 'sudo apt upgrade -y'.

Once these finish, I type 'sudo reboot'; the pi reboots, shows the rainbow splash, about a dozen lines of kernal boot messages then the video output dies and after a couple seconds the act light stops flashing too. Disconnecting power and powering it again does the same thing.

I don't think it's hardware failure as I get the same results with both 3Bs and with a 4B.

I don't know what to do from here.

I've spent the last 6 hours retrying this with both the 32 and 64 bit versions of pi os light. I can't get past the initial update/upgrade.

Anyone got any ideas? Anyone got a spare sd card, a pi 3B, and some free time to see if I'm just stupid somehow? I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

/edit: RESULTS!

I can only assume this was a bad sd card. Tried a different card, with the exact same procedure: it finally booted after an upgrade.

Ran the update/upgrade again + a dist-upgrade and a couple more reboots. Up and running.

Excuse me while I go grab an image of that working card to file away.

Continued adventures in selfhosting, after moving for months and distributing my single board computers out to friends and family. Also, answering questions about the host.

This is a continuation of my other post

I now have homeassistant, immich, and authentik docker containers exposed to the open internet. Homeassistant has built in 2FA and authentik is being used as the authentication for immich which supports 2FA. I went ahead and blocked connections from every country except for my own via cloudlfare (I'm aware this does almost nothing but I feel better about it).

At the moment, if my machine became compromised, I wouldn't know. How do I monitor these docker containers? What's a good way to block IPs based on failed login attempts? Is there a tool that could alert me if my machine was compromised? Any recommendations?

EDIT: Oh, and if you have any recommendations for settings I should change in the cloudflare dashboard, that would be great too; there's a ton of options in there and a lot of them are defaulted to "off"

After a hardware upgrade I ended up with a spare mini pc. Noticed these two icons and thought I might be able to use it as a WiFi access point with VLANs using OPNsense.

Is that possible? If so, what do I even need to buy to plug into there?

I don't need it to do any fancy dhcp, dns or firewall stuff, I just need a WiFi access point with support for VLANs.

Hi all,

What fast but functional document editor do you recommend? I would like to add custom fonts and do some page layout work, but otherwise nothing too fancy.

Suggestions?

I have a couple of TVs that I use HTPC appliances with. One's a shield TV and the other's a roku. I'm not super happy with either of them. The shield lags like crazy and apps crash constantly. The Roku is stable, but can't decode h265 or av1. Both at riddled with ads. Does anyone have a solution they're happy with? I mostly watch content from major streaming services and stream media from my NAS. I have a raspberry pi 4 that's not in use right now, I tried to get it working as a set top box, but couldn't get DRM content to work so I went back to the shield.

I have backups on a backup hard drive and also synced to B2, but I am thinking about backing up to some format to put in the cupboard.

The issue I see is that if I don't have a catastrophic failure and instead just accidentally delete some files one day while organising and don't realise, at some point the oldest backup state is removed and the files are gone.

The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

So I'm thinking of a plain old unencrypted copy of photos etc that anyone could find and use. Bonus points if I can just do a new CD or whatever each year with additions.

I have about 700GB of photos and videos which is the main content I'm concerned about. Do people use DVDs for this or is there something bigger? I am adding 60GB or more each year, would be nice to do one annual addition or something like that.

Now with Trakt doing their best to get rid of their non-paying users, I'm looking for self-hosted alternatives to track my movie/show catalog and my progress in watching it.

So far, I've found:

• devfake/flox - the original, hasn't been updated in 5 years
• Simounet/flox - fork of flox - started further development early 2024, added ActivityPub, reviews and some more features
• MediaTracker - "highly inspired by flox" and also tracks books and computer games

These all come with (one-way) Plex integration to track what you're watching.

Before trying all the other ones mentioned in MediaTracker's README - is anybody using one of those already? Or some similar product?

EDIT: Suggestions from this thread:

• Movary
• Ryot
• Tautulli
• Watcharr
• watchstate

This may require a manual install, as the patching for this may not auto-run.

A vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.

The vulnerability reported by PWN2OWN 2024 (ZDI-CAN-25487) has been addressed.

Not sure if this has already been posted since it's kind of old news (early 2024), but I think that's exciting. I'm currently looking into blog software with nice webgui and I might wait for this to become real. Looking at the announcement page, they seem to take it seriously and there's continuous merged PRs since April until recently regarding AP on their GitHub.

A little background first: I'm selfhosting our (wife and mine) files for over 12 years now, started with a simple FreeNAS folder, switched to Owncloud and moved on to Nextcloud after the split. We only really need the files part, and while it works fine in general, setting it up took more tinkering than it should've.

I'm also not a fan of NC's direction, moving from file cloud hosting to a "full-stack" enterprise one-for-all solution. While that wouldn't be an issue in general, it seems that other parts are prioritized without getting the older parts to work correctly first.

Which seems to match with the recent-ish code analysis https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Service-Navi/Presse/Alle-Meldungen-News/Meldungen/Projekt-CAOS-30_Nextcloud_250205.html (in German, although CVE entries have an English description) which found nearly 40 vulnerabilities, amongst them modules like 2FA/MFA.

So I've tested through most of the other options, but maybe I missed something obvious.

Requirements:

• selfhostable in a docker environment
• file storage/syncing from a central server, preferably selective sync (so Syncthing is out)
• either structured storage (folders etc) or at least structured export/backup from flat storage for application-indepentent file backup
• desktop client for Windows, mobile client for Android
• Web UI for simple browser access
• virtual file support a definite plus

Things I've tried:

Nextcloud

• well-working setup, definitely my "fallback" option
• no fan of the general direction development is going

Syncthing

• While working absolutely fine for sync between different devices (have it in use in a different scenario), the peer-to-peer nature is unsuitable for what I'm looking for

Pydio Cells

• server and web UI work fine, desktop and app sync didn't really work (might be an error on my part though)
• backup fiddly due to needing cells-fuse tool for structured files, although I haven't tested structured storage yet

Seafile

• will have to test this again, when I did years earlier the storage situation was a little tricky

Owncloud Infinite Scale

• Similar to Pydio Cells, but haven't really tested yet due to dev exodus

Opencloud.eu

• several devs from Owncloud moved to Opencloud and forked their "own" OCIS server
• first release scheduled March '25, so no testing yet
• I have hopes this might be a useful alternative, but time will tell

So: did I miss something? Any obvious software solution?

I'm using a docker compose file, and I have everything running just fine, containers talking to each other as needed, NPM reverse proxying everything via a duckdns subdomain... everything's cool.

Problem is, I can still go to, for example, http://192.168.1.30:8080/ and get the services without http.

I've tried commenting out the ports in the compose file, which should make them only available on the internal network, I thought. But when I do that, the containers can no longer connect to each other.

Any advice for me?

Edit:

Thanks for the quick & helpful suggestions!

While investigating bridge networks, I noticed a mention that containers could only find each other on the default container bridge by container name, which I did not know. I had tried 127.0.0.1, localhost, the external IP, hostnames, etc but not container names.

In the end, the solution was just to use container names when telling each container how to find the others. No need for creating bridge networks or any other shenanigans.

Thank you!

I self hosted an instance at is.hardlywork.ing, my images are getting cropped and losing the top and bottom 25% of the the image, leaving me a zoomed in rectangle. I tried on web browser, phone app, etc. same issue uploading any 1920x1080 photo.